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GIRGUL'AR OLOAK.

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NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

THOMAS D. BARTER, OF BOSTON ,MASSAGHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES A. SHAW, OF SAME PLACE.

CIRCULAR CLOAK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,179, dated November 24, 1885.

Application filed October 30, 1884. Serial No. 146,828. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS D. BARTER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Circular (lloaks, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable anyperson skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation representing the interior of the upper portion of my improved cloak, and Fig. 2 a side elevation representing the exterior of the upper portion of the same in the vicinity of one of the armscyes.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates more especially to that class of circular cloaks and other garments which are composed of gossamer waterproof cloth, although applicable to garments made 2 of other materials; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as

hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed,

by which a more desirable article of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

0 In cloaks of this description as they are usually constructed inuch dificulty is experienced in preventing the arm-scyes and'armscye flaps from tearing out, or the materials composing the body around the arm-scyes and flaps, especially at the top and bottom of the latter, from being torn away in putting on and taking ofi the garment, thereby rendering it nearly or quite worthless.

My improvement is designed to obviate this 0 objection, and to that end I make use of means which will be readily understood by all con versa-nt with such matters from the following explanation:

In the drawings, A represents the body of 5 the cloak, and B B the arm-scyes. Disposed on the interior of the garment around either arm-scye, opposite the ordinary exterior armscye flap, D, I place a stay, 0, composed of strong light silesia or any similar material, the stay being stitched to the body of the gar' ment by the seams d and cross-seams Zm, and around the edges of the arm-holes and armsoye flaps by the seams z. The stay is extended upwardly above the arm-scye, as shown at f, its upper end being secured in the shoul- 5 der or back seam, g, as seen at K, the extension being loose between the seams Z and K,

or not stitched down to the body of the garment,to prevent it from drawing the body out of place. This extension of the stay strengthens the cloak across the shoulders, where the greatest strain occurs during'the wearing of the cloak.

In the use of my improvement, when the arms of the wearer are inserted in the holes or scyes B,the strain which is usually brought to be on the materials around the holes is mostly taken up or neutralized by the stay, thereby preventing the arm-scyes and armscye flaps from being torn out and the gar- 6o ment destroyed.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. A gossamer-cloak provided with are-enforcing stay stitched to and surrounding the arm-scye thereof, said stay being extended upward to the shoulder-seam of the cloak, substantially as described.

2. A gossamer-cloak provided with a re-enforcing stay stitched to and surrounding the arnrscye thereof, said stay being extended upward to the shoulder-seam of the cloak and being loose from a point above the arm-scye to its point of connection on the shoulder, substantially as described.

THOMAS D. BARTER.

Witnesses:

O. A. SHAW, L. J. WHITE. 

